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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Motherhood in literature"”.
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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
… four novelists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-Haywood, Defoe, Austen, and Chopin-this work examines the way the mother's importance evolves throughout literature. In Haywood's works, motherhood is seen as a dominant force in her child's life, but not a dominant force in …
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Il palcoscenico della guerra di Libia. Protagonisti, retorica, nazione, 1911-1912
… historical representation of the Italian nation in regard to the narration of the Libyan War and its causes and implications in the consolidation of both state and society. The texts I examine were all published in contemporary newspapers and magazines, which span from 1910 to 1912, as they refer …
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Historicizing Maternity in Boccaccio's Ninfale fiesolano and Decameron
… explores the representation of maternity in two of Boccaccio's works, the early idyllic poem, the Ninfale fiesolano, and the author's later magnum opus, the Decameron, through readings in the social history of women and the family and medieval medical literature of obstetrics and …